In which Greg gets night shift jet lag. And does lots of dull trivial stuff. Post 1 of 2

Afternoon people, long time no speaky. This is a post I never got round to posting last week, its a  tad dull, but tought I'd chuck it up anyway. Another post to follow shortly with some intresting stuff in about Christmas and shit.

First up, more job news. So I've moved to night shifts now, I had my first one on Wednesday. I'm working from 6 in the evening to 1 or 2 in the morning depending on what time we get the restaurant cleaned by. From what the day team said, it was going to be hell on earth, but its actually not that bad. Its not as stressful as the day work by a long way, you can just concentrate on getting dishes through the machine without worrying about crispy mash, roty chickens, etc. You still get to do a bit of line cooking, but thats only when they really need you, when its stupidly busy, so its hard to learn new stuff. The best bit, is that you get bits of the night were its really quiet, so you can just chill and chat to people, something that never really happens on the day shift. But you also get bits of the night were its even busier than the day, and you have to work like a nutter for half an hour. Its also really odd walking home at 2am sober. The streets are full of drunken people shouting, messing around and fighting, and on week nights there is no one about at all, the city is completely empty. Its a nice walk, and always a time were I have a good solid think and reflect and consider my future. The worst bit has been the night shift jet lag. My body has been getting up at 7:40 am 5 days a week for 5 months, and I never wake up past 9 at weekends. So getting to the point were I'm asleep by 4 and awake by 12 has taken some time, I was zombie like early last week, and the last two hours of work were Really hard. But I've recovered now. I'm also back to eating a lot (... well even more than normal) again, presumably body is trying to adapt to the newer routine with more heavy lifting and less hand skills.

In other news:- Last Tuesday me and JP went to the Roxy and had some food there, as Templetons was closed. After I went back to JP's and we dossed around on his PS3. Wednesday I started the shift from hell, I'm currently on day 7 of an 8 day shift. On the bright side, I won't be poor next month, as I first thought I might be. Thursday, I read some book. Friday me Piers, JP and Rosie went to do some Christmas shopping, none of us bought anything, but we did have a nice meal in Furniture Warehouse and a couple of drinks, then we all went back to JP's and played playstation, then I went to work. Saturday I was back to the day shift, so after work I met up with Rosie and we went back to Value Village to do some more Christmas shopping. We didn't really find much, afterwards we headed down Granville and got some cheap sushi, this time I tried the chicken, that came with some kind of BBQ sauce, it was pretty good. Sunday I was still on the day shift, and got to a fair bit of line cooking, there was lots of free cake at work, which I ate far to much of. Monday, it was back to the night shift, so I got a nice lie in, I finally managed to get my Christmas presents sent home, and have decided that Canada Post need more goverement funding as the cost of sending my presents home was equal to the cost of getting them put into Earths orbit. I wrapped them in home made wrapping paper, as 1) It was fun to make 2) I'm to cheap to buy normal wrapping paper. Thats about it!

Quotos! Timos!

"Why's the dishwasher bleeping?"
"Well its run out of rinse agent. The rinse mode is perminatly engaged at the moment, so its getting through a bottle of rinse agent a day. I really need to leave a not for Adam."
"I understood none of that"
"haha, maybe I should have left it at "The dishwasher is broken""
"Yea, thats better, I understood that."

Me getting a little to technical at work.

"JP. Your the only person I know who buys Christmas presents to be vindictive"

The budget we have chosen for each other in the group is $10, but JP has chosen to spend around $40 on each person. But I am looking forward to seeing what my Christmas present is.